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(After supper tonight she walked twice—both times much faster than she has in years—a very surprising and heartening sign. This shows the body can do it. She was exhilarated. She also had other rapid bodily movements, in a more extended fashion, in the arms and legs. Seth said that when the body began to recover, it would be an overall development. At the same time, Jane has been exercising a lot lately, and I’d rather she didn’t overdo this activity.

(Last week the second and last installment of the Village Voice article came out. Everyone agreed that it was much better than the first of the two, so that’s taken care of. I think both of us had some excellent quotations in the piece, and I’m happy that a lot of people at least had the chance to read them.

(9:33) I have said—too often—that the body was not diseased, and it is not. The speed, the normal agility, is there to be unlocked. Forget what you have heard, again, about what the body can and cannot do, or what must happen before such and such a performance appears, for the body itself exults in creative unpredictability, and given the chance loves to perform.

A few old hangovers, simply to be aired so they do not remain underground—this is old material—but Ruburt’s mother used to tell him that he destroyed everything he touched. So when his books began to sell well, and for reasons given, he worried about this energy of his. Since his work was new, he had only faith in himself to go on, and that faith was indeed shaky at times.